cloakings

He is in fisherman's clothes -- this newcomer -- attired with a brave eye for the picturesque, in soft hat and flowing tie; but there are no fisherman's clothes, no, nor any other cloakings which can conceal the resilient dignity of his bearing, his impressive build, and magnificent, kingly head.

The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

How explain the repugnance of the newly born to clothing, the birth-wail that pleads for the sincerity of the nude, protests against the cloakings of convention?

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

I assure you, if I were Hazlewood, I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings, with some little suspicion—and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

Chapter XXIX 1917

But the old man saw through the artless cloakings and was in despair.

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886

I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

Guy Mannering 1815

I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

a specimen of the variety of articles produced in one factory, take the following list, exhibited in the Crystal Palace by a Huddersfield manufacturer: -- "Summer shawls; summer coatings; winter woollen shawls; vestings; cloakings; table covers; patent woollen cloth for gloves; do. alpaca do.; do. rabbits 'down do.; trowserings; stockingnett do."

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

"Under all your cloakings of vagary I observe that you have a foundation of common-sense, just as the giddiest weathercock is bedded on a stone.

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890